One Hundred Fifty-Nine

"Damn, they're dead." Zinnia muttered as soon as they arrived at the forest near the Restricted Area. The two assassins who attacked them were now dead lying on the ground.

"The commotion distracted us too much that we didn't take the poison on their mouth."

"It's fine." Minerva said. Although it was a pity that they both died and were unable to be interrogated to know who was behind this attempted assassination, the leads that they had weren't completely erased.

She stepped forward to look closely to one of the assassins. She crouched and pulled down the hood of the assassin and there she saw a tattoo. It was a star-shaped tattoo on their necks.

"What's this? Do you know any organization that have this tattoo?" Zinnia asked.

Minerva just shook her head. Before, when she was just a child, three people tried to assassinate her and her parents when they were in the Halen Empire. It was